Game Play - New Player Starting Area

[Kandarin]

I just want to add that barricades, to mortals, feel like griefing. And T3 players have workarounds, so they usually don't care about them and don't waste AP destroying them. A safe and enjoyable newbie space should have no barricades.

Per consensus in a recent (yesterday) all-available-hands dev meeting, the current state of barricades is deemed unacceptable and the mechanic is just going to be scrapped in the near future. It may be reintroduced at a future date if a better way to do it is developed.